Political Quotes

“Mr. President, our colleagues know the Presiding Officer is a recovering Governor, I am a recovering Governor, Mike Johanns is a recovering Governor. So we are sort of a support group for one another, men and women who used to be somebody special. I am kidding because I think we still are. The Senator was talking about Michael, and I had the privilege of knowing him and his wife for a number of years. We were Governors together, and my wife Martha and his wife Stephanie were First Ladies together and define what the standards should be for First Lady or First Man, if you will, if you have a female Governor. I will never forget when I first met him. I was talking about Stephanie and how we know each other and so forth, and he told me this great story about--I think they were county commissioners together. It was Lancaster County. I might be mistaken, I think he used to be in those days maybe a Democrat, and a long time ago I was a young Republican for Barry Goldwater, when I was a 17-year-old Republican freshman student at Ohio State, and later found out Hillary Clinton was a Goldwater ``Golden Girl'' at the Republican convention in 1964. In any event, I just want to say one of the reasons he is so thoughtful, and I hope maybe the reason I am fairly thoughtful, is because we have the ability to work across the aisle and to see and appreciate the views of other people.…”